Young women are shunning birth control because of the ‘nocebo effect’

When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000 people hit the “like” button. Of the pros, the girl said her birth control made her period ...
WHDH

7 Investigates: Birth control tested as a way to solve local cities’ rat problems

MALDEN, MASS. (WHDH) - Rats are increasingly pestering neighbors in Malden. “They run around the day like they own the neighborhood,” said Ryan Newhall. “They’re huge, they’re like this big and I’m ...
STAT

Social media misinformation is scaring women about birth control

Pfender is an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, a postdoctoral researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a research ...
Futurism

Woman Gets Off Birth Control Because Influencers Told Her To, Immediately Gets Pregnant by Mistake

On TikTok and Instagram, a chorus of young influencers are advising women in their age bracket to ditch their hormonal birth control pills, saying they cause a cavalcade of problems for physical and ...